THE PINE-TREE, OR FOREST LIFE. 



PART II. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Pines. — White Pines : rank claimed for this Variety. — Predilections. — 

 Comparison instituted. — Pitch and Norway Pines. — White Pino. — Mag- 

 nitude. — New York Pines. — Lambert's Pine on Northwest Coast. — \ 

 ties. — Its Rank. — Great variety of purposes to which it is devoted. — Great 

 Pine near Jackson Lake. — Capital Invested. — Hands employed on the 

 Penobscot. 



After the foregoing brief notice of some of the most interest- 

 ing trees, we come at length to consider that species which con- 

 stitutes the theme of the following pages. 



The Pine has been appropriately called the Monarch of the 

 Forest. Taken all in all, it is the crowning master-piece of all 

 woody plants. This avowal is made in full view of what has 

 been said respecting other specimens of the vegetable kingdom. 

 i early education, we are accustomed to regard some things 

 fore others in point of merit, whether truth in the case would 

 support our notions or not. 



For • our preferences. T tuch of inte 



::t. of nature — much to admix lly in 



the grandeur, the picturesque beauty, and sublimity of 



Those tli!-: > clearly defined in the mind of the 



botanist — so many excellence 



and every species of the respective families, that e ■•ding 



ims to place the lasl I 



